In the past, genetics researchers had to find hundreds of people for every study they started. Now, the USC Information Sciences Institute has reduced that search to a few keystrokes.

Dr. Porter gave an overview of IARPA mission and needs, and met with ISI researchers.

Viterbi School scientists are developing theories and computational techniques to help systems understand texts at a deeper level than is possible today.

In addition to advancing machine translation technology, a major aim is creation of machine translation prototypes for African languages.

Shortipedia is a wiki site where users can contribute facts that the system can reason about to answer questions.

ISI project leader Kristina Lerman will work with Aram Galstyan, Yu-Han Chang, and Alex Tartakovsky (USC Mathematics) on the project.

The researchers found that not all users on Digg are equally influential in promoting a story.

The program consisted of full papers, short papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops.

Knoblock recognized for his “individual contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.”

ISI’s role will be the development of advanced computational technologies.